Apartment Poems - Poems about Apartment

There is a need for quietness today, I listen to my neighbor's toilet flush, it takes a long time for the sound to drain away and refill, I hold seconds inside my mind between that rise and fall. There is space for listening, the trash compactor chews on when switched off. I hear conversations filtering through the air conditioner, words both distinct and garbled. Yesterdays hurried meal speaks...

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Old radio plays slow jams in memory of best moments but fleeting, The vigour and splendour of youth unfolding cautiously as stars mount the skies. Dancing to the collapsed hope of a lover knows hurtful heart from staggering footsteps, Memories splashed on walls, laughter and silence hanging over my head like broken halo. thoughts heavy to let go, the...

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Memory Poem In Apartment A - 1971 a brace of wine glasses standing tall on a kitchen table greasy frying pan luxuriating immodestly in the kitchen sink two forks and two knives bathing naked in the steamy water vinyl black record spinning clockwise under a cool ceiling fan music by beethoven caressing the hour with perfume sounds clock on the television...

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An apartment building is a giant, Tall. Holding so many in its clutches. An apartment building is a means of protection. A means of shelter: Protecting from storms. An apartment building is a monster With thousands of eyes That gaze upon you as you pass by....

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It should have said St John’s - with that apostrophe! So many omit the little mark. How could they, when its presence or absence gives us one meaning or the other? A tenant within these apartments who is a mysterious lady, placed the absent apostrophe on that poster, kept this nighttime act a secret, and crept away. St John was a saint we...

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I wander through the days and nights with my mind set on a luxury apartment on the block, I have been saving to buy it for more than a decade because nobody can live in it. I don’t know if it’s haunted or someone was murdered there but something must have happened inside causing the...

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Her apartment house was shaped like a tall woman’s boot. I could see why she chose to live there, it did in fact suit. Her disposition, her opinions, her ideals and her attitude. Being inside with her, reading, put me into a powerful mood. Women power forever! My assertive, opinionate Aunt Bertie said. She had the attitude of Rosie the...

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Date. August 2023 Damian turned 22 and Moved from his family's estate Into his own duplex apartment, 5 bedrooms. One master bedroom and 1 and a half bathrooms. Down town West Virginia. One night While working the bar a customer Entered the bar and ordered a Bacardi cocktail and started a Conversation. "Ay my man you...

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Booby trapped within apartment unit b44 Circa August 18th, 2021 three bajillion years ago to date, nevertheless I count blessings, so please do not hashtag me as worse than an ingrate or one whose dire financial straits attributed to flimflam scam artist, who fleeced me and when he/she asked direct questions heavily trended to obfuscate which penury now finds me...

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A lot I could say about my bookshelf: In a way like my half-understood self. A first-time user should seek my half help Against a blind book search and its yelp! Supports the cruel weight of three thousand books: Fat ones except Camus’ that it brooks, Golding’s moderate-sized up to ten And Hemingway’s made to stand like brave men! Wood that clearly woos...

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We sat on the porch of your best friends apartment Celebrating time with cigarettes and conversation You sat on my lap; a siege concealed in a kiss My envy revealed with the feel of your swollen lips Inhaling your breath like a cold, autumn wind Those Marloburo reds and your darkness within Despite all the secrets; freely bleeding from me You bought...

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High above the quiet, darkened streets of January, the night wind begins to whisper secrets through my apartment window casements. Far below me lie four cafes, all in sync as they awaken from daytime hibernation to begin an evening ritual of turning on lights, welcoming thirsty patrons, discouraging lost polar bears, trying to survive. Light bulbs...

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Requisite inspection June 29th, 2022 at Apartment B44 Aforementioned title and following little known verses of Matthew finds me feeling squeamish, peevish, anguish, et cetera at our (the missus and mine) digs, cuz low income rental housing regulations require safe and secure place to live, hence unpleasant inspection scheduled at least once per year here at 2 Highland Manor Drive between 9:00 A.M. and...

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To the left of my apartment a baby is chronically crying. To the right of my apartment a couple is arguing, and above my apartment parents are disciplining their children. Most living in such an environment might find this noise pollution annoying, but I on the other hand find it quite entertaining. Despite all of the continual audio chaos that...

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A man’s apartment is airily roomy But wears he a face real gloomy … Soon, I find out his eyes are rheumy And he thinks he got them through me! Lousy Guy! My eyes for long not rheumy; Two years now they to overseas flew me … And with rheumy eyes in a shelter roomy One should a reason find to...

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